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stock-boy

stock-boy is the alternative form of stockboy.

Meaning of stockboy

Noun

stockboy (plural stockboys)

  1. A young stockman raising livestock.
    • He spoke quietly, in a rather cultured voice, saying, "Your brother Mark gave Jock one of his halfcaste piccaninnies for a stock-boy. […]"1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 85
  2. A young stocker, an employee at a store stocking shelves; an entry-level retail employee.
    • He had graduated from Cregier High School two months earlier and quickly landed a job as a stockboy at Order from Horder, a stationery store chain.1991, Alex Kotlowitz, There are no Children Here, page 194

Forms of stock-boy

pluralstock-boys

Questions about stock-boy

What is stock-boy the alternative form of?
Stock-boy is the alternative form of stockboy.

Words near stock-boy in the dictionary

  1. stock video
  2. stock videos
  3. stock-and-trade
  4. stock-bow
  5. stock-bows
  6. stock-boy
  7. stock-boys
  8. stock-gillyflower
  9. stock-gillyflowers
  10. stock-in-trade
  11. stock-job

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